Baptist leaders who stood for tolerance and the right of conscience gave way to men like Bailey Smith, the president of the SBC in 1980 who uttered this comment: “It’s interesting to me at great political battles how you have a Protestant to pray and a Catholic to pray and then you have a Jew to pray. With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew. For how in the world can God hear the prayer of a man who says that Jesus Christ is not the true messiah? It is blasphemy. It may be politically expedient, but no one can pray unless he prays through the name of Jesus Christ.” They Can’t Have It Back: Southern Baptist Leader Seeks To ‘Reclaim’ Church-State Separation by Rob Boston in Wall of Separation https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/they-can-t-have-it-back-southern-baptist-leader-seeks-to-reclaim-church
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:48:16 +0000
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